Published Works/ Accomplishments


Domestic Work (Graywolf Press, 2000). It won the inaugural 1999 Cave Canem poetry prize (selected by Rita Dove), a 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. 
Natasha Trethewey, a graduate of the University of Georgia and professor at Emory University, won Bellocq's Ophelia (Graywolf, 2002). Received the 2003 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, was a finalist for both the Academy of American Poets' James Laughlin and Lenore Marshall prizes, and was named a 2003 Notable Book by the American Library Association.
Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize
She is also the author of a book of creative non-fiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Georgia, 2010).

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